Comment by hombre_fatal

That study is worthless.

1. TC:LDL and LDL:HDL? Always be suspicious of nonsense ratios.

2. Trials lasted 3 to 7 weeks. Atherosclerosis shows up in decades.

3. Almost nobody even hit the high intake range of 4.19% calories, everyone was clustered at the low end.

4. It was a null finding (CI crosses zero, underpowered, just looks at surrogate markers), not evidence of no effect.

Do people who eat ruminant animals have better health outcomes in general? No, especially not better than people who, say, replace it with plant proteins. Which is why proponents try to focus on bad studies. We should be asking what is the best evidence, not cherry picking the worst evidence.